The trial court erred by issuing a discovery order compelling the Michigan Department of Community Health to release the names of nonparty patients who had been treated by defendant and were diagnosed with seizure disorders. The order violated the nonparty ...

The attorneys for two county officials who alleged that multiple defendants violated state and county real estate transfer tax laws will be sanctioned for filing multiple pleadings for an improper purpose. “This matter is before the Court on Defendant Marshall ...

Plaintiff’s claim that defendant breached an automobile lease by not allowing him to purchase the vehicle when the lease expired is not well-taken. Further, although plaintiff contests fees assessed for excess wear and tear, he has not supported this claim ...

Plaintiff’s case, which alleged defendants’ wrongful failure to pay a life insurance benefit from an ERISA-based insurance police, was correctly removed by defendants from state court to the federal district court. Because plaintiff has not exhausted her administrative remedies, the ...

A passenger who was injured when Transportation Security Administration personnel required her to get up from a wheelchair cannot sue the air carrier that provided the wheelchair for premises liability or negligence. The injury occurred in an area under the ...

Defendants’ motion to change venue from Macomb County to Oakland County is granted because plaintiff does not conduct systematic or continuous business within Macomb County. “The mere fact that Plaintiff’s office is located in Macomb County, and Defendants sent checks ...

Where defendant, an electrical power transmission company, condemned plaintiffs’ land to build transmission lines, the trial court erred by awarding attorney fees incurred during plaintiffs’ required production of records so that defendant could make a good-faith offer to purchase easements ...

The trial court’s attorney fee award in this Freedom of Information Act case is vacated and remanded for re-evaluation because the court did not analyze the fee request under any of the factors contained in Smith v Khouri, 481 Mich ...

The parties’ dispute over the scope of a natural gas pipeline easement is best understood as an easement dispute arising under Ohio law, rather than a federal-question jurisdiction issue arising under the Natural Gas Act. As a result, “the district ...

Administrative exhaustion of remedies to an IRS jeopardy determination is not a jurisdictional prerequisite to judicial review in federal district court. However, the exhaustion requirement in 26 U.S.C. § 7429 is mandatory, and the taxpayer in this case provided no ...